AIBU to suggest a mass boycott of TV licence payments?

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"He received between £435,000 and £439,999 in the year 2022/2023, which rose to £475,000 - £479,999 between April 2023 and April 2024, the BBC's latest annual report shows.
Edwards remained on the payroll while suspended, which is normal BBC policy."

See attached article.

He has been charged with three accounts of making indecent images of children. Six category A images. 12 category B images. 19 category C images on his WhatsApp.

Do you think the BBC will try and clawback any of that huge amount or wages?

Do you think we can clawback any of our financial support of this organisation? Because I sure as fuck don't want to pay my licence fee towards this. It's sickening. (And I realise it's "optional" but for those who do need access to iplayer or live TV for education purposes or similar, it's effectively enforced)

I'm also very cynical about him being charged last month but the story only going public on a very busy news day.

What would the CPS have to gain from trying to keep it quiet? It’s in court this week, that’s why it’s been announced now.

Huw Edwards enjoys the presumption of innocence.

Whether or not the licence fee should be reformed is an entirely separate matter.

Ditto. There’s a huge culture of covering up, keeping quiet.

It was the Met Police who informed the press. They don't normally wait a whole month before announcing that they have charged someone with a crime, and you can bet some of the media has been sitting on this story.

That licence fee funds a shit load of crappy repeats

Well, if we stop the money when one person turns out to be dodgy, that’s the Royal Family’s funding fucked then.

Also the Met.

Also just about every public-funded arts program.

And none of us should ever get a taxi.

I just wonder why, if they wanted to cause damage to the BBC then last week’s Annual Report would’ve been the time to do it, why would other media have kept it quiet to save the BBC face?

Not suggesting there aren’t times things are held, I’m just trying to understand why they would’ve done that and to what gain.

Or ring 999.

I've always been very supportive of the BBC but if you add in the Strictly scandal & the fact that they are bowing having to provide chaperones for their adult contestants I'm starting to have a rethink!

People always Bang on about local radio and the sodding proms when discussing the license fee ,this may blow your mind but some people have no interest in them either not that you need a licence to listen to the radio.

I know people that work for ITV. It’s no better.

Yup. NHS. Social Services. Schools. Waste collection. Large charities. The last government. Time will tell with the current lot. Any large organisation.

Let’s just get rid of all corporations and organisations just in case there is a bad apple or their policies and procedures need updating and head into a disorganised, lawless state. There will be no badduns then!!

Putin would rub his hands with glee if we managed to get rid of the BBC.

The BBC World Service provides news in countries like Syria, Burma, etc etc etc where getting uncontrolled news is impossible.

YABU. This is a ridiculous thread.

So you never use the children's channels, the news, Bitesiz or any BBC radio station?

I don't watch BBC and don't pay tv licence. I stopped trusting them long time ago.

You realise that different people have different viewing habits to yourself right?

I’ve become mighty fed up of their news reporting.
Its SO biased and every journalist seems to want to make a name for themselves with over reporting every detail.
Just tell us the news and let us make up our own minds!

Of course but I would be surprised if a household used none of those.

The Licence Fee does not just support the making of BBC content, it supports the whole of the broadcasting infrastructure, it supports research and development that supports the technical development of broadcasting, it funds the groups that set the standards to ensure that broadcasters can show thier content in multiple platforms.

Also, it supports thousands of jobs .. in all sorts of areas, production, hair, make up, technology, you name it. Having these professions in this country supports investment, as film & Televison companies come here to make thier productions.

No commercial station wants to end the Licence Fee, because it makes economic sense to keep it. Other than some of the more Right Wing Media, who ideologically don’t want anything funded from the public purse